Guest bloggers Gavin Yamey and Craig Cohen report from last month’s Integration for Impact Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, women have to go to separate clinics to receive the different

At the beginning of the International AIDS Conference held in Washington, D.C. in July, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton renewed the United States’ commitment to an “AIDS-free generation a call to action that would reverberate

Today we recognize World Malaria Day, a day that for me is filled with contradictions. There are many reasons to feel encouraged. Globally the number of malaria deaths is dropping, thanks to progress on several

This year’s review booklet of Randomised Trials on Child health in Developing Countries–compiled annually to summarize the evidence on child health derived from randomized trials in developing countries over the previous year– has just been

This week four articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including two articles on malaria in our research section. Philip Bejon and colleagues document the clustering of malaria episodes and malarial parasite infection. These patterns may

In June PLoS Medicine launched a series on maternal, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Policy Forums and an Editorial were published on June 21st to coincide with the Pacific Health Summit (a

Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including five Research Articles: The first genotyped children from the ALSPAC birth cohort and shows an association between greater early infancy gains in weight and

Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide, the